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Last week, I wrote about how some Florida Republicans were so worried about Muslims infiltrating Florida's court system that they had filed a bill that was so flawed, the Senate's own analysts said it was potentially unconstitutional: ( “Florida legislat

Rollins College recently booted Intervarsity Christian Fellowship off campus. ICF is a 136 year old ministry founded by students at Cambridge, England, known more for its laborious lectures and academic publications than any sense of extremism or cultic behavi

Benedict XVI begins to consider his legacy as pope while the cardinals prepare for their conclave in which the next pope will be chosen. As the conclave considers its future leader the question remains: will they choose a pope from the Southern Hemisphere wher

Washington, D.C. — A new, comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that more than eight-in-ten people worldwide identify with a religious group.

The Council on American Islamic Relations has announced its strong repudiation of a conviction in absentia from an Egyptian court that sentences a Florida pastor and seven Egyptian Christians to death. The court announced the sentences on Wednesday.The Rev. T

They both want peace.This photo of the two men standing on a street in New York City went viral on Facebook this week.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Israel with the hope that she can negotiate a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli governm

Orlando-area black churches will participate in a “Souls to the Polls” event at 2 p.m. Sunday, beginning at the New Covenant Baptist Church of Orlando, 2210 S. Rio Grande Ave., Orlando. Members from about 20 churches, most of which belong to the Af

The American Muslim Community Centers will celebrate Eid al-Adha — the Feast of Sacrifice — at 9 a.m., Friday, Oct. 26, at Fort Mellon Park in Sanford. The Islamic holiday concludes the pilgrimage to Mecca, and celebrates the Prophet Abraham's will

Religion 101: Understanding Islamwith Imam Ashiq Kermali will be held at 7 p.m. tonight at the Holocaust Memorial Resorce and Education Center, 851 N Maitland Ave., Maitland. The seminar, the second in a series, is free and open to the public.The series, crea

A new study finds the typical American believes the United States is far more religiously diverse than it actually is.The typical American adult pegs religious affiliation in the U.S. as follows: 24% Catholic, 20% Protestant, 19% unaffiliated, 9% Jewish, 9%

Religion News Service's Daniel Burke rounds up stories about the death of Ambassador John Christopher Stevens, who was killed in a violent reaction in Libya to an anti-Muslim video:U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans we

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of Islam's holy book was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official said.The release a day after a judge gran

Religion News Service reporter Omar Sacirbey writes about the increase in Muslim delegates to the Democratic National Convention, representing a shift in support among Muslims from Republican to Democrat since 2000:(RNS) The number of Muslim delegates atte

Nadia S. Mohammad writes for the Washington Post about female Muslim athletes making history at the London Olympics:Though it just started, the London Olympics already holds a series of historic firsts, especially for Muslims and women around the world.To be

Religion News Service reporter Omar Sacirby writes about Muslim atheletes competing in the Olympics during Ramadan:Surprisingly, winning one when you’re fasting for Ramadan is not that much harder. At least, not for Suleiman Nyambui of Tanzania, who took sil

Most voters continue to say it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs. But voters have limited awareness of the religious faiths of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. And there is little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candid

Muslims had hoped their controversial mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn. would be ready for use by the start of Ramadan, but a permitting issue delayed once again the completion of the Islamic house of worship that has faced protests, vandalism and lawsuits.New Yo

The American Muslim Community Centers, which recently opened it Longwood facility, has announced its prayer schedule and events for Ramadan, which begins Friday, July 20: The first Taraweeh prayers are expected to be held at AMCC on Thursday, July 19, 2012.T

Benjamin F. Scares writes in the New York Times about Islamic extremists desecrating tombs of Muslim saints in Mali:In the past week, Islamists have destroyed and desecrated the tombs of Muslim saints in the fabled town of Timbuktu in northern Mali, recalling

Religion News Service reporter Omar Sacirbey writes of the difficulty mosques have in finding American-born imams:SHARON, Mass. (RNS) The Islamic Center of New England has always been led by imams born outside America. The two-campus mosque would like to chan